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(music playing) Hi! I'm Dennis Taylor and welcome to Excel 2013 Essential Training. In this course, I will show you how to use this popular and powerful software. We'll begin by getting you familiar with Excel's menu System, how to create formulas and use simple functions. How to format your data for appearance sake; how to use printing and charting capabilities of Excel; how to work with powerful functions like "IF" and "VLOOKUP." I'll show you a few data analysis tools like "Goal Seek" and "Solver," and show you how to automate your work via macros.

Whether you're a novice or an expert wanting to refresh your skillset with Microsoft Excel, this course covers all the basics you need to start entering your data and building organized workbooks. Author Dennis Taylor teaches you how to enter and organize data, perform calculations with simple functions, work with multiple worksheets, format the appearance of your data, and build charts and PivotTables. Other lessons cover the powerful IF, VLOOKUP, and COUNTIF family of functions; the Goal Seek, Solver, and other data analysis tools; and how to automate many of these tasks with macros.

Welcome

(music playing)Hi! I'm Dennis Taylor and welcome to Excel 2013 Essential Training.In this course, I will show you how to use this popular and powerful software.We'll begin by getting you familiar with Excel's menu System, how to createformulas and use simple functions. How to format your data for appearance sake; how to use printing andcharting capabilities of Excel; how to work with powerful functions like"IF" and "VLOOKUP."I'll show you a few data analysis tools like "Goal Seek" and "Solver," and showyou how to automate your work via macros.

We've got a lot to cover, so let's get started with Excel 2013Essential Training.

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